“These are direct effects of internalized discrimination based on their age.”

A non-discriminatory perspective would be to treat children and youth as whole and complete people right now.

Dropping out of school is the ultimately caused by discrimination against young people in schools.

Most of society’s decision making for young people happens without young people, and that could not happen without adultcentrism.

The pattern of discrimination that allows this discrimination was set in the founding of the United States.

Young people often serve as scapegoats for the challenges communities face.

At the same time, they are routinely pushed away from connecting to their communities as serious problem-solvers capable of changing the world.

Any honest conversation about engaging young people must address discrimination against young people.

It’s really seeing student involvement … as a variety of opportunities that are appropriate for each given student and responsive to their individual needs and their desires for their educational experience.

Young people and adults need equitable relationships-they do not need equal ones.

Adultism is not always harmful-but it is always real.

The outcome of this culture of discrimination is that young people are routinely denied the roles in society they can, should, and need to be occupying.

For every young person living on the streets tonight, there are many at home zoning out inside their homes through video games, and even more who disengage from school.

Like a pet fish unaware of the fishbowl it lives in, each of us inherently discriminates against young people without knowing it.

Adultism leads to a phenomenon of little adults, who are young people who are treated as adults-in-the-making.

Meaningful student involvement is the process of engaging students as partners in every facet of school change for the purpose strengthening their commitment to education, community & democracy.

It is not enough to simply listen to student voice. Educators have an ethical imperative to do something with students, and that is why meaningful student involvement is vital to school improvement.

I think you don’t support people based on one or two cases of situations.

In the ’80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear – that if I didn’t, people would soon forget about me.

A successful branding program is based on the concept of singularity.

I can’t have composite characters. I can’t attribute dialogue to someone based simply on my memory and not based on notes taken at the time that the words were spoken.

After going through a lot of procedures and spending a lot of money … the doctor said, ‘Look, based on what we’re seeing here, I just don’t think this is going to happen for you.’

You come to see that everything you think you know about yourself, everything you think you know about the world, is based on assumptions, beliefs, and opinions-things that you believe because you were taught or told they were true.

All delusions begin in the mind. All delusions are based on various ways we’re talking to ourselves and then believing what we are saying.

When you stand in your own authority, based in your own direct experience, you meet that ultimate mystery that you are. Even though it may be at first unsettling to look into your own no-thingness.